The round-2 cdb capture is decisive: during a live retail glide,
edge_slide fired ~1.5 times per find_transitional_position — the
arm/move alternation's exact signature (3 entries on the arming tick,
0 on the moving tick) — with cliff_slide in lockstep, step_down at
2.5x, step_up 0, and every stack sample on our identical call path.
cliff_slide's bytes match our port and ACE's (compare constant at
0x794610 verified 0.0), and the user could not distinguish the two
clients side by side. The "retail redirects within the tick" premise
misread round-1's set_sliding_normal cadence (per-event, not
per-tick, so its 1:1 ratio with edge never discriminated anything).
The alternation-tolerant assertion in Issue345SteepSlopeGlideTests is
therefore the CORRECT retail-shape pin from both sides; its comment
now cites the capture instead of calling the shape a residual. The
#269 note is honest the other way: the hope that a within-tick port
would explain that feel residual is withdrawn with the premise.
The temporary Scratch347 diagnostic is deleted. Capture evidence:
345-glide-stacks.cdb.log (repo root, untracked, cited from the
contract's RESOLUTION section).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cliff_slide arms are conformant in ACE, our port, and the bytes
(compare constant at 0x794610 verified 0.0), the round-1 slidn:edge
ratio (538:594) refutes a retail retry storm, and the user's
side-by-side speed observation fits alternation. Round-2 cdb script
now counts find_transitional_position; H-A (identical, retire AD-70)
vs H-B (within-tick yield) resolves on one ratio. The temporary
Scratch347 diagnostic test rides along until #347 closes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>